In Lynne Raimondo's novel DANTE'S POISON, Mark Angelotti is a psychiatrist who is going blind. While he is dealing with his past feeling that he has let many people down and dealing with the guilt he is trying to figure out his feelings for his friend Hallie Sanchez. She does not know about his faults and his past that he felt would keep anyone from being close to him. At the same time he is volunteering for a new drug that could possibly help him get his sight back.

Then Hallie gets a call that her old friend Jane Barrett, an attorney, has just been arrested for murdering her boyfriend and journalist Rory Gallagher with an antipsychotic medication, Lucitrol. Let's face it; she did have access to the drug through a client, the manufacturers themselves. There have been other claims against this drug that she has defended. Mark and Hallie have to figure out what this has to do with the death of Gallagher. He had made many enemies from his stories in the paper. Could she have been framed? Barrett herself has made just as many enemies, as most of her colleagues find her ruthless.

As Hallie and Mark investigate things themselves, their lives are in danger and someone has attacked them leaving Hallie in the hospital. Mark tries to get what information he can, even though his handicap as a blind man can make it a challenge at times. Will Mark be able to figure out the murder before he is their next victim?

Lynne Raimondo's DANTE'S POISON is a mystery novel that is different from most. With the main character being blind and trying to solve a murder by collecting clues, Raimondo has the task of using all of Marks other senses to put the pieces together. It is refreshing to read a mystery novel where the quest to solve the problem requires much more than just the character's sight. Well-done Raimondo!